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Spent most of my Latin periods playing battleships
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Et Nescit locum Tuum numquid gratiam .. ?
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As a gardener, and generally, I still find my latin helpful, but I wish my french was better. Does this help
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French has got to be the most pointless language going. Even when I was doing my 'O'level I was thinking that my time could be better spent doing something more constructive.
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Latin , Irish and Welsh more pointless
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I did love my Latin lessons though, my teacher was a mad old eccentric who loved a pint and a bet.
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Mr. Cotterell he was called, I totally respected that man
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Latin is a dead language and of no use to the majority of people.
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It’s strange that all children are equally able to learn a language
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Might try to get back to learning French again , France 24 news is good to listen to
Makes it less like hard work |
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Listen to and watch
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lfc - not strange at all, mainly cos its not true.
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in what way ? we can all speak our native language
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Es Est Sumis Etis Sunt Amo Amas |
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It’s like magic almost
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The more you think of it the more impossible it seems
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And then how can you think without having words to think ?
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lfc1971
in what way ? we can all speak our native language It happens fairly naturally BB struggling with a response? |
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nominative bellum bella
genitive bellī bellōrum dative bellō bellīs accusative bellum bella ablative bellō bellīs vocative bellum bella |
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Bella Bella - Gregory's Girl circa 1980,
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Veni Vedi Vici is all I know , and that’s probably wrong : )
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u no Vici
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I like it when Pavarotti sings , but that I suppose is Italian not latin
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agricolae autem non habeat fiduciam
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Akabula - not struggling at all, was hoping for some more informed posts.
LFC said - "It’s strange that all children are equally able to learn a language and adults are not". My post was merely to point out that this is b ollocks. Hth. |
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More likely to be taught Latin Dancing in a Transgender neutral way these days.
There was currently a new advert for the Open Uni. What is the big selling point for it you ask? The quality of the education? The Job opportunies? No it is APPARENTLY the freedom it allows for people to have time off to go through Transgender reassignment procedures. I'm not kidding, saw it earlier. |
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Ita Vero
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I know her, Irish/Italian singer.
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Bay
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Bay Jay US
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Latin is a masochistic language though? I mean it's really hard, lot harder than modern Italian. Lots of wierd cases that are alien to English speakers that have thankfully been dropped by the Romance languages.. I'd far rather learn Italian or Spanish, at least they are useful.
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You put your own interpretation on LFCs post BB.
Read it again and hopefully you'll twig. HTH PS can you translate my effort at Latin? |
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Thread hi-jacked by the loons. Anyone want to start a thread on the original subject where intelligent debate and argument might be continued.
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The lords of the internet will be shaking their heads that finally, that last bastion of intelligent reasoned cyber-debate, "Betfair Chit Chat", has fallen into the mire, and people are talking crap
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there is no point reading words ....
if you don’t understand words |
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I know Billy Bunter studied it, but it's not as necessary now in Western countries.
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From the point of view purely of vocabulary, you need Latin (and Ancient Greek) to understand your own language.
You could be confronted with the most obscure, jargon-filled text on any subject going, but as long as you have a grasp of the classical languages, you never feel completely out of your depth. Whether it's physics or philosophy, medicine or religion, there'll always be a degree of familiarity with the jargon, and a basic understanding of what's going on. And that gives you the confidence to investigate further. But without that classical education, you'll just spend your life dismissing so much stuff as "too complicated" or "beyond my pay-grade" or, worst of all, "something to leave to the experts - I'll take their word for it". As well as that, all the other Indo-European languages, outside of French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, are virtually impossible for a native English speaker to grasp, unless you've been taught the grammatical structures of the classical ones. Just try learning Russian or Hindi without a grounding in Latin and Ancient Greek. And as lfc1971 points out, you can only think in words and sentences. If you lack an understanding of grammar (and if English is your only language, you will do), then structured thinking is going to be a very hit-and-miss affair. You'll just have feelings instead. |
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Amo
Amas Amat Amamus Amatis Amant Surprised that came straight to my head after so many years.... |